discount has definitions from the field of business
1
[ verb ] bar from attention or consideration

Examples

"She dismissed his advances"

Used in print

(Saturday Review...)

But we are to believe that Lindemann actively supported radar outside the Tizard_Committee , and dissembling , discounted it inside ?

2
[ noun ] the act of reducing the selling price of merchandise

Used in print

(Christopher Davis, First Family....)

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University_Hospital - Mr._McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family - and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off , spend a_lot of time in bed and , for the rest , do pretty_much as he chose - provided , of_course , he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating .

Related terms

decrease

3
[ noun ] (business) interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan

Related terms

interest_rate bank_rate

4
[ noun ] (business) a refund of some fraction of the amount paid

Synonyms

rebate

Related terms

refund rent-rebate rebate

5
[ verb ] (business) give a reduction in price on

Examples

"I never discount these books-they sell like hot cakes"

6
[ noun ] (business) an amount or percentage deducted

Synonyms

deduction

Related terms

allowance trade_discount

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